Michael Acker, La Primavera, Inkjet on watercolor and mulberry papers, watercolor, acrylic, 41.5″ x 36.5″, 2020

The $1000.00 Working Artist Photography Award
Call for Photographers Submissions -- Deadline: March 31, 2023

The Working Artist Photography Purchase Award is available to all photographers and photography based artists working worldwide in all technologies, mediums, genres, and styles.

We make it super simple to submit your work: send us your website, or 5 images (each under 1 mb), along with your name and contact information to: photographyaward@workingartist.org. No written proposals or CV's are required unless the artist would like to include them. There is no application form.

There is a submission review fee of $25.00, payable here:

which helps offset the costs of this effort to fund meaningful work by serious artists.

If selected as our winner, we ask that the award recipient be willing to exchange one of their original works or smaller series of original works for inclusion in our collection in return for our award. Work considered by the artist as of equal value, and available for acquisition can be negotiated upon receipt of the award. We do pay the artist's shipping costs. Please send us your best work for review.

Participants agree by completing their submission to limited use of their images or other representation of their artwork and general information to be featured on this site and corresponding promotional media. All rights will be retained by the artists.

Thomas Condon, Secondary Spectrum, (from Future Perception), Archival pigment print and Ink on paper, 2023

Erica Deeman, Silhouettes (25), San Francisco Portraits, Archival pigment print and Ink on paper, 2023

Kei Ito, Sungazing (Series), 2015 - Ongoing, 108 Chromogenic color prints made by direct sunlight